Improvement in ironing apparatus



UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFIGE,

JAMES ASHTON AND RHEUBEN H. METZ, OF KENT, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN IRONING APPARATUS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 178,894, dated June 20, 1876; application filed v March 13, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JAMES ASHTON and RHEUBEN H. METZ, of Kent, Stephenson county, Illinois, have invented a new and I'mproved Ironing-Machine, of which the following is a specification:

Our-improved ironing-machine copsists of rollers, on which the cloths or clothes to be ironed are rolled, together with a table, on which the rollers are laid, and a heavy plate or frame lying on the rollers, and having a forward and backward motion lengthwise, for

rolling and pressing the clothes smooth. The table and the rolling-plate are provided with chambers, in which heaters may be placed to heat them.

the cloth to be ironed, wound on the rollers; l), the rolling-plate; E, a strap, and F a cranked drum for operating the rolling-plate. Grep- 'resents chambers under the table, and H a chamber in the rolling-plate, for containing heaters for heating them. K represents guiderollers that may be used to guide the rollingplate and keep it steady.

Having thus described our invention, we claimas new and desire to secure by Letters Patent The combination, with rolls B, strap E, drum F, and guide-rolls K, of the table A,

having heating-chambers G, and the rollingplate D, having heating-chamber; H, all constructed and arranged substantially as and for the purpose specified.

' JAMES ASHTON.

RHEUBEN H. METZ. Witnesses:

JACOB DELP, JOSEPH SIDEB. 

